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Al Sarrantonio

(b.1952)

AL SARRANTONIO is the author of thirty books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery and western genres, include Moonbane, Skeletons, House Haunted, The Five Worlds Trilogy, West Texas, Orangefield and Hallows Eve, the last two part of his continuing Halloween cycle of stories.

He has edited numerous anthologies, including the highly acclaimed 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction and the upcoming Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Cemetery Dance, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories and The Best of Shadows.

His best horror stories have been collected in Toybox and Hornets and Others. He has had numerous book club sales, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery

Series

Jack Paine
Cold Night (1989)
Summer Cool (1993)

Novel of the West
West Texas (1991)
Kitt Peak (1993)

Five Worlds
   1. Exile (1996)
   2. Journey (1997)
   3. Return (1998)

Masters of Mars
   1. Haydn of Mars (2004)
   2. Sebastian of Mars (2005)
   3. Queen of Mars (2006)

Orangefield Cycle
   Hallows Eve (2004)
   Horrorween (2006)
   Halloweenland (2007)
   Orange Lake (2015)

Novels

   Totentanz (1985)
   The Worms (1985)
   Campbell Wood (1986)
   The Boy with Penny Eyes (1987)
   Moonbane (1989)
   October (1990)
   House Haunted (1991)
   Skeletons (1992)
   Orangefield (2002)
   The Pumpkin Boy (2005)
   Underground (2013)

Collections

   Toybox (1999)
   Hornets and Others (2005)
   Halloween and Other Seasons (2008)
   Tales From the Crossroad : Volume 1 (2011) (with others)

Anthologies edited

   The Fireside Treasury of Great Humor (1975)
   The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor (1983)
   The Fireside Treasury of New Humor (1989)
   One Hundred Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Treasury of Great Humor (1996)
   999 (1999)
   Redshift (2001)
   Flights (2004)
   Stories (2008) (with Neil Gaiman)
   Halloween (2010)

Novellas and Short Stories

Sisters in Mystery (2012)
Al Sarrantonio's Book of Holidays (2014)

Series contributed to

Babylon 5
8. Personal Agendas (1997)

Little Book Series I
A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories (2007)

Anthologies containing stories by Al Sarrantonio

Shadows 4 (1981)
Shadows 5 (1982)
Fears (1983)
Shadows 6 (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
Shadows 8 (1985)
Whispers VI (1987)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
Night Screams (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998)
Dangerous Vegetables (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
999 (1999)
Children of the Night (1999)
Bruce Coville's UFOs (2000)

Short stories

	Under My Bed (1981)
	Boxes (1982)
	Letters from Camp (1982)
	Pumpkin Head (1982)
	The Return of Mad Santa (1982)
	Father Dear (1983)
	The Man with Legs (1983)
	The Quiet Ones (1983)
	The Only (1985)
	Wish (1985)
	Bogy (1987)
	Two (1988)
	Richard's Head (1991)		Bram Stoker (nominee)
	White Lightning (1995)
	The Ropy Thing (1999)
	Overseer (2000)